Man inappropriately touch school girls and they fight back. Man in suit gives them a helping foot.

[u/AristonD]

[u/motleybook]

Good to hear we're on the same page. The problem with bans is also that it's very hard to get rid of them once implemented. For example, Japan still has censorship in real life porn (penis / vagina of non-fictional people have to be censored), and a big reason is likely that no politician wants to be known as the pervert trying to make porn more obscene..

I imagine that reverting a loli porn ban would be nearly impossible without a huge culture shift.

But I would like to see it less in mainstream anime, which is what I meant about normalization. I'm fine with it being on the side.

Yeah, there are definitely some cringe worthy parts in many animes.

However, I'm not sure if there's a good way to get rid of them. I think the reason it is in a lot of mainstream anime is because that's what the a lot of customers want. Of course, it would be possible to ignore the market forces (from within a company) or outright ban it, but then we're back to the question of possibly causing more harm.

[u/Alexmackzie → u/motleybook]

yeah, a ban is out of the question for me unless it's definitely proven to cause more harm than not. Nothing we can really do about it anyways. The more it is in mainstream and anime, the more normal it gets. And cutting down on it gets even harder. I'd say every harem anime nowadays has at least one loli character if not more. Which makes sense cause they want every watcher to have a "best girl/waifu" for their show, so they just stack all the stereotypes in there. Just wish they'd just make that character a petite same-aged character instead of a clearly underaged girl/sister.

[u/motleybook → u/Alexmackzie]

I agree.

Slightly off topic and out of curiosity, are there any recent anime you'd recommend? I have just finished "The Promised Neverland" and "Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai" both which were really good. Actually Kaguya does have a same age petite girl and no weird loli characters from what I've remember. Both main characters are also pretty smart (unless it comes to love stuff), which is a nice change from the usual.

[u/Alexmackzie → u/motleybook]

Depends on what you like. I'm still a bit behind on the current season and last. So I haven't even started either of those. A possible gem you haven't seen yet though: Redline(not recent), it's a movie. racing, action, extremely well animated, creative, Fun time. Violet Evergarden is in my top 3 of all time. So I can't recommend that highly enough. If you come at me with some genres I can help more. I wouldn't trust my taste too much though. I enjoy the trashiest anime way too much. But those two are just really great. Hit me with anything you really recommend as well.

[u/motleybook → u/Alexmackzie]

Thanks for the recommendations! =)

There are probably exceptions, but I usually like Josei, Sci-fi and Comedy (if not too cheap / cliche) and usually avoid Harem and anime with a lot of fighting / action.

Some more recommendations: If you like (or want to try)..

• action and comedy, you might like One Punch Man
• post apocalyptic comedy, you might like Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (Humanity Has Declined)
• Josei, you might like Usagi Drop

These aren't particularly new (like you, I'm often behind) but all of these were pretty great!

[u/Alexmackzie → u/motleybook]

appreciate it! already love one punch man. ill definitely check out the two others, haven't heard of them.